In Which I Contemplate the Train

Besides four songs, I almost forgot this video: Saturday’s ride featured us passing a train in downtown Cedar Rapids as we rode home after lunch.

I like the natural sound in this video, which gives a sense of how loud these are. I’ve been stuck by trains before, but we were lucky this time. I think the train was still adding cars, because it rolled slowly east into downtown, and we were on its south side. It blocked all the intersections for cars, but allowed us to roll parallel to it.

And as we neared the west end of downtown, the train began rolling backwards towards the railyard there beside the big Quaker Oats plant.

So it felt like the train was just escorting Team Joe on our final ride.